2000

Five hot new shorts about identities and relationships. Part personal memoir and part documentary. Karen Everett’s My Femme Divine (1999) mines her own explosive love affair and draws from poetry, photography, discussion groups, Mormon teachings and Jungian psychology to explore the butch/femme mystique. Purse (Kelly Dolak and Liss Platt, 1999), Pump (Abigail Severance, 1999) and two experimental shorts by Phoenix video artist, Sharri Weinberg.

Two documentaries give new meaning to family values. Our House (Meema Spadola, 2000) profiles five diverse gay families in New York, New Jersey, Arkansas and Arizona. Canadian Justine Pimlott’s Laugh in the Dark (1999) chronicles the rise and fall of a community now lost to AIDS.

This collection of shorts features the award-winning Kalin’s Prayer (DeSales, 1998) a trippy ride inside the tortured mind of a lesbian model as she battles for love and life against the demons of sexual and drug abuse. Also includes experimental narratives Roof (Betsy Kalin, 1999) and Welcome to Africville (Dana Inkster, 1999) and Sexual Exiles (Irene Sosa, 1999), a documentary profiling nine gay and lesbian foreign nationals in the U.S.